Not Good Enough Mentality Five Tips on Getting Over the Fear of Showing Your Work Almost every artist I know has gone through bouts of insecurity. The ‘I’m not good enough mentality’. It can be a crippling fear, an insidious monster that burrows deep within the psyche. I know I’ve certainly gone through it and […]
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Patience for Your Craft
Patience for Your Craft It’s All Relative Patience for your craft or your passion will baffle most people who are not also passionate about the same thing. Sometimes, that passion has to be super specific. For example, for as long as I can remember, I have envied people who have the patience for painting, doodling, […]
Tints, Shades, Tones
Tints, Shades, Tones Value – Part 2 Tints, shades, and tones. While we’re still on the subject of value, I’d like to very briefly cover a few words you may have heard and maybe even used in the past. You may have even used the words tints, shades, and tones interchangeably, but there is a […]
Ballpoint Pen Art
Ballpoint Pen Art Beautiful Works of Art in a Most Unforgiving Medium Ballpoint pen art always intimidated me. Back in 2014, when I took on the challenge to do a daily sketch, a friend cautioned me with regards to using pencil. This sketchbook was to be with me at all times, bounced around in my […]
Christmas Commissions 2016
Christmas Commissions 2016 Portraits That Have Kept Me Busy This Season Time to unveil the Christmas commissions! Now that all the Christmas gifts have been opened, it’s safe for me to post the portraits of all the fur babies that have kept me busy for the past four or five months. Some of them have […]
Charitable Giving
Charitable Giving Giving Back by Putting Your Gifts to Use Charitable giving can be one of the most rewarding parts of people’s lives. Those on the receiving end are grateful in ways most people can’t imagine. The real depths of the ways in which they benefit will probably never really be known by anyone […]
Color Theory
Color Theory Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green Color theory has long been the bane of my existence. …Okay, maybe I’m being a little dramatic here. But working with color has never been something I have been 100% comfortable with. I started with pencils, as in your average school fare Ticonderoga #2. I’ve graduated since […]
Black and White vs Color
Black and White vs Color My Preference Black and white vs color? That is the question. If you’ve followed this blog or my artwork for any period of time, you know that my preference is black and white. For some reason, it always has been. And I do believe it always will be. Why, though? […]
Artist Bob Corujo
Artist Bob Corujo Virtually Unknown Even Though Millions Have Seen His Work Like millions of others, I had never heard of artist, Bob Corujo until I saw this CBS segment of the now retired 60 Minutes artist. That’s right. Bob Corujo was the artist behind the incredible artworks, known to the 60 Minutes crew as […]
How To Silence The Inner Art Critic
How to Silence the Inner Art Critic And How to Turn It to Your Advantage One of the toughest things to do is silence the inner art critic. Ultimately, that’s your ego talking. And ego is always anxious to point out our short-comings. The opposite side of the ego’s spectrum is the distorted view that […]
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